In the Media Archive

In early December 2014, Brittany Nunn missed a court date. She was scheduled to fight for custody of one of her daughters, but the tide in the case had been turning in favor of the girl's father, according to Colorado law enforcement.

The world's legal systems are just now making peace with the Internet, more than 20 years after it was invented. But we're going to need to start that process all over again for robotics, argues law scholar Ryan Calo.

Headlines rang out across the internet that a robot killed someone in Germany. Beneath the sensationalist surface, there was a tragic truth: an industrial robot at a Volkswagen plant in Germany had indeed killed a 22-year-old worker.

Centuries ago, if someone had the plague or another infectious disease, a red “X” or cross would be placed on their door so that people would know to avoid entering. In the future, we won’t have to do that—we will have an app that maps illness instead.

While we’ve heard of consumer drones getting in the way of commercial airliners and obstructing firefighting operations, we haven’t heard of many drones being shot out of the sky by a neighbor. But according to one drone pilot, that's exactly what occurred in Modesto, California on November 28, 2014.

The UN Human Rights Council decided in June 2014 to initiate a process to “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.” Sponsored by Ecuador and South Africa, the resolution was adopted by a plurality vote of 20 States in favor, 14 opposed, and 13 abstaining.

Two popular university-entrance exams will soon be offered in Cuba for the first time, a development that signals U.S. educational institutions’ appetite for recruiting prospective students in the newly opened communist nation. Four Cuban students will sit on June 27 in Havana for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, a standardized exam required for admission for nonnative speakers at many universities in the U.S., U.K., Australia and other countries, according to the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, which administers the test.

Great article that spotlights WLI Co-chair, Justice Mary Yu:
"To have a judge formally, in a courtroom say, 'We recognize your family,' would bring people to tears. This is the power of the rule of law. This is the power of recognition.”

In the 10 years since he joined the Court, Roberts has established himself as the central arbiter of important First Amendment issues. By a long shot, Roberts writes more of the Court's free-speech decisions than any of his colleagues. And even when he doesn't write the rulings, he always is in the majority—literally. Roberts is the only justice who has never been in the minority on a major free-speech case.

The U.S. Supreme Court's long-awaited ruling Monday on the prosecution of Facebook threats turned out to be one of those narrow decisions that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has touted as the way to achieve greater unanimity.

Of the nine candidates in Washington state who took the licensing exam to become the nation’s first-ever limited license legal technicians (LLLTs), seven passed and will now have their names submitted to the Supreme Court of Washington for the court to issue an order granting their admission to practice.

Sports and Corruption are Top of Mind today. The sweeping U.S. indictments of 14 people tied to FIFA - international soccer’s governing body - continue to reverberate in the headlines. The charges include bribery, racketeering and money laundering. A separate Swiss investigation is examining the possibility of improprieties in FIFA’s awarding of the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

Dylan Orr remembers a time, hanging out on a West Seattle playground, and the abuse he received. Orr says it drove him to pursue a career that has led him back to the City, as the new Director of the Office of Labor Standards.